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Wage setting in the Colombian manufacturing industry
Agudelo, Sonia A.; Sala, Hector - 2015
We show that wage setting in the Colombian manufacturing industry is not fundamentally driven by labor productivity in contrast to the standard theoretical prediction. On the contrary, internal institutional arrangements – payroll taxation, the minimum wage or the price wedge between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010502793
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Utilising microsimulation to estimate new marginal returns to education : Ireland 1987-2005
Flannery, Darragh; O'Donoghue, Cathal - 2011
In this paper we utilise microsimulation techniques in the form of an income generation model and a tax/benefit model … results indicate that a more generous tax/benefit system, combined with a greater state burden of the cost of education over … in education. The methodology employed allows us to specifically analyse the impact of various components of the tax …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009235519
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Lifecycle impact of alternative higher education finance systems in Ireland
Flannery, Darragh; O'Donoghue, Cathal - 2011
system (ICL) and a graduate tax system from a fiscal and redistributional viewpoint and to analyze the repayment length under … the former system. Our results suggest that an ICL system would is more equitable, while the graduate tax system would be … microsimulation ; income contingent loan ; graduate tax …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009235521